Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rocket coast, from which London was still taking a sadistic battering, could not stand for long. The key play for the Allies was to take it and plow on to the Reich before the Nazis could start using their next hope: V2. This was the last weapon with which Goebbels & Co. kept the Germans bemused, hoping for victory...
...fleet off the Philippines. Last week a CVE air squadron, Composite Squadron 33, was home after ten months of combat in the Gilberts, the Marshalls, Hollandia, Aitape and the Marianas. Planes and guns of the baby carrier had destroyed 35 Jap aircraft. The little flattops had become an offensive weapon...
...surest weapon against the roach is extreme temperature. The insect thrives between 70 and 80° Fahrenheit, but can be killed by dry air at 86°, becomes numb at 35°, dies at 23°. It is also very susceptible, when it can be reached, to poison. In Manhattan the most common varieties of roach are the American (an inch and a half long) and the German (half as large) ; the German is locally known as the "Croton bug" because it first invaded the city in large numbers when holes were cut in walls for water pipes...
...glidermen had given the greatest demonstration of the power of airborne attack in the invasion of France; never before had such masses been dropped into heavily defended enemy territory to fight with such effect. Last week the Allies moved a step further in the development of a tactical weapon that had been long neglected...
Part of Dr. Hilleboe's $10,000,000 will be used for further research on drugs. But the biggest weapon in his arsenal is simply a mobile X-ray machine, with which he hopes eventually to photograph every chest in the U.S. The machine, now equipped with a new electronic timing device, produces fast, small, high-quality X rays at one-fiftieth of the former cost, can take 500 pictures...